The Preah Vihear provincial court on Saturday charged two Laotian nationals alleged to be involved in a drug trafficking case, following their arrest two days earlier, its spokesperson Chum Kaniya said.

He said, “Judge Thorn Bor Hiek charged the suspects for possessing methamphetamine.”

Mek Sam Oun, deputy chief of the provincial anti-drug department, said his team and their counterparts from the Ministry of Interior jointly raided a guesthouse in Kampong Sralao commune in Preah Vihear’s Chheb district on Thursday, where they found a package of methamphetamine weighing at least 1kg.

He identified the two suspects as Sok Thavongpelea, 46, and Khuon Makita, 46.